Poor kids decayed teeth are the target of deep pockets on Wall Street looking for profits in a lackluster economy with mobile dental clinics.  More kids in poverty leads to a likely increase in business. The fees, come from government Medicaid money from the feds, the programs are supposed to be managed at the state level.

...‘Unbelievable’ Fraud

Ellis, a Dallas orthodontist, testified in Congress last month that the “flagrancy of the fraud” she found in audits she performed for Texas Medicaid “is truly unbelievable,” with only 10 percent of the paid claims she reviewed actually qualifying for Medicaid coverage.

Texas “has gained a lot of fraudulent orthodontic providers, including many private equity owned dental clinics engaged in the illegal practice of dentistry,” Ellis told the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....


Morgan Stanley Private Equity, Arcapita Inc., Carlyle Group LP (CG), Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, Leonard Green & Partners,  Leonard Green, Court Square Capital Partners, and Levine Leichtman Capital Partners are players in the mobile dental care business.